Owen Parker: Edward Heath's sailing master | The Independent Owen Parker: Edward Heath's sailing master Tuesday 22 July 2008 23:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online Owen Parker, best known as Sir Edward Heath's sailing master, was one of the best-known yachtsmen of his generation and managed all of Heath's Morning Cloud yachts and their crews. In 1969, this partnership became the first foreign entry to win the famous Sydney-Hobart Classic. They went on to represent Britain in the winning Admiral's Cup team with Morning Cloud II in 1971, won Burnham Week with Morning Cloud III in 1972, represented Britain with Morning Cloud IV in the 1973 Admiral's Cup and again in 1979 with Morning Cloud V. The team continued racing right through to that year's infamous Fastnet Race when 15 lives were lost. Morning Cloud V finished the race, but Heath took such a buffeting during the 605-mile race to the Fastnet Rock and back to Plymouth that he never raced again.

Attending the recent relaunch of Morning Cloud II, now named Opposition, at the Clare Lallow yard in Cowes that had built the yacht, Parker recounted how Heath had woken him during the Sydney-Hobart yacht race saying that the boat was surrounded by killer whales. "What should I do?" he asked. Parker answered "Pray, sir, pray", then rolled over and went back to sleep. Parker wrote about his experiences sailing with Heath in his book Tack Now Skipper (1979). Ronald Cecil Maurice Victor Parker was born in 1932 in Netley, Southampton. His father, Owen Parker, was a fisherman, shipwright and professional sailor who crewed on Sir Thomas Sopwith's J Class America's Cup challenge yacht Endeavour. Ronald left school at 14 to follow in his father's footsteps, picked up the name "Young Owen", and when his father died playing football at the age of 42, the name "Owen" stuck with him.

Owen got his first paid hand post in 1946 aboard the 96ft luxury yacht Leander, then jumped ship to Clover the following season "for better pay", earning the princely sum of £1 a week. His first racing experience came under the command of Mrs Drayfus in her 6m yacht Thistle, competing in the Solent and Cowes Week. During the 1950s, he became the paid hand aboard a yacht owned by John Miller, the aircraft component manufacturer, and spent time in America where he became an expert at varnishing. In the late Fifties, Miller became involved in a yacht fittings company on the South Coast and employed Parker. He went to work for the winch manufacturer Lewmar in 1960 and then moved to the Southampton-based chandlery Montague-Smith, where he graduated to managing director. Parker continued racing, acting as the paid hand aboard Guy Bowles' Camper & Nicholson yacht Gay Gauntlet. Bowles later commissioned a series of highly successful race yachts all named Sunmaid, which Parker oversaw and campaigned.

In 1964, Owen Aisher, the Marley tile magnate, persuaded Parker to join his crew on the 12m Kurrewa, a British contender for the America's Cup. Shortly after, the skipper Stan Bishop died, and Parker took over the captaincy. They were beaten in the British trials by Sovereign. Parker rejoined Guy Bowles and commissioned Sunmaid V for the 1965 season, which proved the boat to beat for the next four seasons. At the tail end of the 1969 racing season, Parker was invited to join the crew of East Coast sailors that Ted Heath had pulled together to race his first Morning Cloud at Burnham Week. The yacht did well and Heath decided to have it shipped to Australia to take part in that year's Sydney-Hobart race, starting on Boxing Day. Parker remained as Heath's right-hand sailing man for the next 12 years, taking responsibility for his five Morning Cloud yachts and crews. When Heath became Prime Minister, Parker was given the task of liaising with the Security Services to work out a way of repatriating Heath should a government emergency arise.

When a helicopter airlift was discussed, Parker asked: "What the hell are we supposed to do when all this is going on?" When told that the crew would be required to take down the sails and heave-to, he answered: "What? And lose precious seconds? Not bloody likely! If you want the skipper, we'll push him off in a dinghy and you can pick him up from there while we continue racing." Barry Pickthall Ronald Cecil Maurice Victor Parker (Owen Parker), yachtsman: born Netley, Hampshire 19 May 1932; married 1984 Christine Wales (two sons, three daughters); died Southampton 9 July 2008. More about: THE FASTNET YACHT RACE The Fastnet race route map The Fastnet Race rightly has the reputation for being one of the toughest yacht races in the world. It can be the ultimate sailing challenge for those who want to stretch themselves to the limit. The 608 nautical mile course starts at Cowes then off westward to the Fastnet Rock off of southern Ireland before heading back to Plymouth.

The race started in 1925 with just 7 yachts and today some two hundred and fifty boats cross the starting line in Cowes, crewed by nearly two thousand people, young and old, male and female, all of whom are setting out on their personal adventure. The race was part of the Admiral's Cup racing series from 1957 to 1999. The International Offshore Rule (IOR) was introduced in 1973, and the yachts and crews began taking sponsorships. Storms during the 1979 race resulted in the deaths of 17 competitors. This led to a major overhaul of the rules and the equipment required for the competition. The race drew further attention from outside the sport in 1985 when the maxi-yacht Drum capsized after her experimental keel sheared off. Pop star Simon Le Bon, co-owner and crew member of Drum, was trapped under the hull with five other crew members for twenty minutes, until being rescued by the Royal Navy .

The Search and Rescue Diver was Petty Officer Air Crewman (POACMN) Larry "Scouse" Slater of 771 Naval Air Squadron who appeared on This Is Your Life on 9 April 1986. FASTNET 1979 AUGUST 14 Dozens of yachts have been lost and at least three people killed after a freak storm blew up in the Irish Sea during the Fastnet yacht race. Hundreds of competitors have been left stranded and there have been several reports of bodies floating in the sea. Rescuers from both sides of the Irish sea are working around the clock to answer distress calls from many of the 303 yachts taking part in the ocean race. Naval helicopters from Culdrose have made dozens of sorties and have so far rescued about 100 people. A Dutch warship and trawlers from France have also joined the rescue operation, which is the biggest ever launched in peace-time. A 20,000 mile (32,000 km) square area of sea is being searched for 150 yachts which are still missing.

Damaged boats have been escorted into harbours from south-west tip of Ireland to the Isles of Scilly, some headed for Wales. 'Great Fury' The Fastnet race is the last in a series of five races which make up the Admiral's Cup competition, the world championship of yacht racing. This year's race began from Cowes on the Isle of Wight on Saturday 11 August on a sunny day in calm waters. The course takes the yachts westwards across the Irish Sea, around Fastnet Rock off the coast of the Republic of Ireland and back to Plymouth. By yesterday lunch-time the weather conditions had deteriorated and some competitors talked of being hit by a "great fury" at sea. Force seven winds whipped up mountainous waves and unpredictable tides caused chaos. One of the few boats to reach the finish line in Plymouth was Morning Cloud and her skipper, former prime minister Edward Heath. He said: "It's an experience that I do not think anybody would want to go through again willingly.

"It was a raging sea with enormous waves and one of them picked us up and laid us on our side." Owen Parker was the tactician and crew boss on one of the race favourites, Morning Cloud, the yacht owned and skippered by former British Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath. Owen sailed with Sir Edward for 12 years and was the man trusted to take the helm when the hurricane-force winds overtook the race fleet. Edward Heath and Morning Cloud Safety Issues Questions about safety will now inevitably be raised and the future of the Fastnet race, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, could be in jeopardy. Many of the smaller yachts taking part in the competition were not equipped with a radio and were therefore not able to report their positions. There have also been reports that some of the life-rafts broke up and safety harnesses snapped. The Conservative government minister responsible for safety at sea, John Nott said: "It is a tragedy as many people have lost their lives. "But man is going to go on pitting himself against the elements and ocean racing will carry on.

"There are always lessons to be learnt from every tragedy but I would not like people to feel that as a result of this disaster that the Fastnet race will not continue." The final number of dead was 15 - six lives were lost because safety harnesses broke, the others drowned or died of hypothermia. Following the disaster the Royal Ocean Racing Club, which had organised the event, was heavily criticised but an official report into the disaster in December of that year cleared it of blame. However, new special regulations were introduced which limited the number of yachts competing in the Fastnet race to 300. It became mandatory for all yachts to be equipped with a VHF radio and qualifications for competing were also brought in. In 1983 restrictions on electronic navigational aids were also lifted. The race is still considered a supreme challenge for racing yachtsmen or women in British waters. The winner of the 1979 race was Kiaola. 'Beyond fear' Matthew Sheahan was only 17 when he entered the 1979 Fastnet race on his father's yacht, Grimalkin.

The 608-mile (978 km) course started in near perfect conditions, but for the crew of Grimalkin it ended in tragedy as they battled to survive one of the worst storms to hit an ocean yacht race. The first line of defence when conditions start to get tough is to reduce sail. We all did that, everybody in the fleet did that. There's nothing unusual in reefing down, or even reefing down until you've only got one tiny scrap of sail up. But what is unusual is to get to the point where you need to remove all the sails and sail under what we call "bare poles". Cartwheel As an indication of just how strong the conditions were, we were still sailing along at speeds we would have trouble getting to under full sail in decent conditions. As it got worse through the night we started to be knocked down. During the early hours of the morning we were capsized again and again. When a yacht capsizes it's pretty dramatic. Each time we were thrown out of the boat. Sometimes it would just be rolled over onto its side and catapult the crew into the water. Other times it would roll completely over and come up the other way.

Worse still was when it was "pitch-poled", when the boat actually does a cartwheel. The bow ploughs into the wave in front and the back gets lifted up by another wave. Thunderous roar And quite often the next thing would be popping out on the surface and being towed along by your safety harness behind the boat that was careering down the face of the wave. And bear in mind these waves were the size of buildings. This happened time and again throughout the night - it was utterly exhausting. After first light we had one that was particularly bad. I was down below with my father trying to sort out some of the mess and decide on what we were going to be doing next. I heard this thunderous roar, a bit like I imagine an avalanche would sound. I glanced up through the window and saw this absolutely monstrous wave that was breaking and rolling down like a huge bit of Hawaiian surf. Pinned down Within seconds it had hit and we rolled over. The boat eventually came up the right way but my father had been concussed by some of the debris that was down below and wasn't in a good state.

We got back on deck to check that everyone was OK and we got hit by another wave which rolled the boat over again. Except this time the boat didn't come up. Fortunately for me, I'd been thrown clear of the boat, but only just - I was still attached on my harness. I was being pinned down by the deck, because my harness line wasn't quite long enough to get my head totally above water. As I tried to get my life jacket and harness undone to allow my head above the water - which must have been maybe a couple of minutes later - the boat started to right itself. It then flicked around very quickly and because I hadn't undone my harness fully it launched me back into the cockpit. The boat had been dismasted, there were some crew lying in the cockpit, others hanging on outside the boat. All of them had been trapped under the boat. One of crew had realised my father was in a very bad way and needed to get out from under the boat, and he had cut my father's safety harness to free him. As I stood up and looked upwind I could see a body face down in the water. We were drifting away from it. There was absolutely no question in my mind it was my father.

The worst thing was that he was upwind of the boat and the boat was drifting downwind. Had it been the other way round we could have got the life raft or something to go downwind and help pick him up. But upwind in those conditions: impossible. Life raft terror After the final knock-down three of us decided it was right to get in the life raft. We couldn't move the other two, both of whom were unconscious and buried under broken spars and rigging and ropes. We decided it was better to get help and getting help meant getting into the life raft. But the life raft was the most terrifying part of the whole thing. It's like being in a toddler's paddling pool and being thrown into serious, serious weather. This inflatable raft was spun down the face of the waves and every now and then we thought it was going to flip over as a breaking wave either crashed over the top or forced up from underneath. It was absolutely terrifying. We spent several hours in there until a helicopter plucked us out of the water. We then informed the rescue services immediately there were other people on the boat. There's not many days that go by that I don't think at least of my father and very often about the race.

Sometimes events are so big and get so out of control as to make you feel miniscule. Something deep within you realises that there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. You almost go beyond a state of fear. The whole thing was completely and utterly overwhelming. The British Establishment ... Paedophiles Everywhere | David Icke The British Establishment ... Paedophiles Everywhere By David The David Icke Newsletter, January 20th, 2013 THE BRITISH ESTABLISHMENT … British royal and political Establishment with its global significance peers over the cliff. Hello all … It is starting to get silly now and the arrest for questioning of major figures must take place in at least the next few weeks if the police investigation is to retain any public confidence. The evidence for a massive paedophile ring infesting the royal palaces, Downing Street and the Westminster Parliament is overwhelming and mounting by the week. The implications of the full truth being revealed can hardly be overstated – the devastating discrediting of the major political parties and the end of the monarchy. It would bring about a total public re-evaluation of everything they have believed about the country they live in and the forces that dictate its laws, direction and methods of operation.

The knock-on effect would be the same for much of the rest of the world because what I am about to describe is happening in every country to a larger or lesser extent – not least in the United States. The revelations about record-breaking paedophile and child procurer Jimmy Savile have exposed the former BBC ‘star entertainer’ as a purveyor of sheer evil on a scale that would challenge any imagination. Here are the cold and shocking numbers according to the police – and these are not nearly the whole story: 450 people of both sexes have made complaints about Savile involving 28 police areas throughout the country and among them are 34 alleged rapes. They spanned a period of 54 years between 1955 and 2009 when Savile was 82. The abuses happened to 23 children and young people on BBC premises and at 14 hospitals and at least one hospice. More than 70 per cent of his victims were under 18 and one as young as eight.

Metropolitan Police Commander Peter Spindler said that Savile’s crimes were ‘vast, predatory and opportunistic’ and he had effectively ‘groomed the nation.’ Sounds good, but personally, I would not trust the Met’s investigation Operation Yewtree to pursue the full truth about Savile any more than I would have trusted him to produce the school nativity. Spindler added – ludicrously – that Savile used his celebrity to ‘hide in plain sight’. Oh, no, no, no, mate. That will not do. Savile got away with it for 54 years because he was protected by the highest levels of the paedophile-Satanist-controlled British Establishment for whom he was procuring children. Lest we forget: Disc jockey Jimmy Savile was a close friend of the royal family including Lord Louis Mountbatten, Prince Philip and Prince Charles from the 1960s until he died aged 84 in 2011. Savile was also a close friend of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who ran one of the most paedophile-infiltrated administrations of modern times – yes and with all the competition, too.

Now a new front is emerging to expose the ring’s sickening activities – the notorious Elm Guest House in Rocks Lane, Barnes, south-west London. I have been on the trail of Elite paedophilia and Satanism on both sides of the Atlantic for two decades but I still shake my head at the same recurring names year after year in location after location. Names emerging from sources seeking to expose what happened at Rocks Lane have included a Thatcher cabinet minister who has come up so often it is extraordinary testimony to the Establishment’s ability to cover up that he is still at large and considered worthy of political influence. Another ‘Elm name’ familiar to me is Anthony Blunt who is alleged to have used the name ‘Anthony Goldstein’ when visiting Rocks Lane. Blunt was one of the infamous ‘Cambridge Five’ British Intelligence insiders who spied for the Soviet Union. Four of them were Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Kim Philby and the fifth, never named, was Lord Victor Rothschild, although there were actually more than five.

And Blunt leads us once again to the British royal family … Anthony Blunt (1907-1983) was born the third cousin of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon who became the wife of King George VI and is best known as the late Queen Mother – the woman that Princess Diana described as evil. This was a good description given that the lady they called ‘The Nation’s Grandmother’ was one of highest satanic witches in Europe (see The Biggest Secret ). Blunt’s mother was the second cousin of the black witch’s father Claude Bowes-Lyon, the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Blunt and his brothers would go for afternoon tea with the Bowes-Lyons at their London home in Mayfair and he was in the royal, political and Intelligence loop almost from the start. There is another highly significant aspect of the Blunt story according to the London Daily Mail. The paper reported that he told colleagues that he was actually the secret son of King George V, the brother of Bowes-Lyon’s spouse, George VI. This would put what was to happen later in a much clearer context.

Blunt was educated at the elite Marlborough College where he was a member of the Honourable Fraternity of the Amici. This is a rarely-mentioned secret society based at Marlborough but also operating at other elite colleges including Eton, Radley and Wellington. Its rituals appear to be based on Freemasonry with a system of degrees and prominence for the symbol of the all-seeing eye. Amici initiates use their covert manipulation to secure major positions of influence among the students and this continues when they enter the worlds of business and politics. It is the usual worldwide story, in other words, as with the Skull and Bones Society at Yale, the Quill and Dagger at Cornell and the Sphinx Society at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Blunt also spent part of his childhood in Paris when his official father, the Reverend Stanley Vaughan Blunt, ran the chapel at the British embassy. So Blunt had many royal and Establishment connections throughout his formative years and things began to move quickly when he won a scholarship to Trinity College at Cambridge University. It was at Cambridge that he became a member of a Russian spy ring which was passing British secrets to Moscow during World War II.

Four members have since been officially named as Blunt, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and Kim Philby (who married Jewish Soviet spy Litzi Friedman). But others got away with it including their leader, Lord Victor Rothschild. Highly significant to the ring was a university secret society called the Cambridge Apostles. Blunt was a member and so was Guy Burgess and other spies and alleged spies, John Cairncross, Guy Liddell and the most important of all, Victor Rothschild. Blunt acted as a talent spotter and recruiter for the ring and his value as a potential Soviet source increased when he was recruited by MI5. Maclean and Burgess fled to the Soviet Union in 1951to avoid prosecution and Philby followed in 1963 after more than a decade of denial which saw him continuing to work for newspapers and part-time for MI6. Blunt secretly admitted his involvement to MI5 in 1963 on condition that he had immunity from persecution and this was not made public until 1979 when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was forced by the weight of evidence by then in the public domain to make a statement to this effect.

The ring master behind all of this was Lord Victor Rothschild who at one time shared his London flat with the homosexual Burgess and Blunt. Homosexuality was a criminal offence at the time and a perfect vehicle for blackmail even without the paedophilia that also went on. Official biographies say that Rothschild was recruited by MI5 during the war in the same way as Blunt, but in fact Rothschild ran British Intelligence and wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, another reported paedophile. ‘National hero’ Winston Churchill was a despicable character who worked covertly for the global enemies of freedom and peace – the Rothschilds. They were a secret source of income. There is a very good chance that Churchill was a Rothschild bloodline and the Windsors have been since their origins in Germany from where the Rothschild global empire of finance and secret society manipulation emerged. Prince William is a Rothschild at least through his grandmother – Princess Diana’s mother, Frances Shand Kydd who was born Frances Ruth Roche, a Rothschild offshoot. Royals often tend to have official parents that are, one or the other, not blood parents. It must be a heck of a job keeping up with it.

Victor Rothschild was known within British Intelligence as the ‘Black Bag Man’ because he controlled the secret ‘stash’ that covertly funded off-the-record projects that the official government had refused to sanction. He knew where the bodies were buried throughout the Establishment and who was doing what to whom among royalty, politicians, media and academia. This allowed him to manipulate and dictate through threat of exposure. These are the techniques that continue to be used today by the Rothschild networks and this is another reason why they love to see paedophiles in positions of power making the decisions that change society in the desired Orwellian fashion. The same happens in North America – in fact everywhere the Rothschilds and their lackeys are at work which is, well, pretty much everywhere. No, it should be the other way round, mate. Victor Rothschild was Winston Churchill’s minder and the director of his policy before and during World War II – a war in which the Rothschild Cabal controlled all the major players through their placemen Roosevelt (United States); Churchill (Britain), Stalin (Soviet Union) and Hitler (Germany). This is the point that historians and researchers of the Cambridge spy ring don’t understand.

Victor Rothschild was not a Soviet spy – he was the Rothschilds’ man directing British war policy as others were directing that of North America, the Soviet Union and Germany. The spying was largely done for the Rothschilds, not the Soviet Union, but there is also the fact that if you want to stop something happening that doesn’t suit your agenda, or take most advantage of something happening when it does, then tell another ‘side’ (another of your sides) what is going to happen well before it does. This is what the Cambridge spy ring was really all about, but only Rothschild among them would have known that. The rest were convenient stooges and who was the one that never got caught? Rothschild. Six retired KGB colonels confirmed after the demise of the Soviet Union in 1993 that Rothschild was involved in the Cambridge spy ring, but they wouldn’t have known the wider background either. Compartmentalisation is the key.

King George VI with his missus Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, third from the left, and in the centre is the king’s mother, Mary of Teck, a descendent of infamous Satanist and blood drinker Vlad Dracul of Transylvania who inspired the Dracula stories. Anthony Blunt was so trusted by the royal family and his cousin Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (after all, he claimed to be one of them) that he was sent on a mission to Germany at the end of the war to retrieve British royal correspondence to their German royal relatives showing support for the Nazis which is what the royals are. Prince Philip’s Nazi background is well documented, for example, but he’s not alone. Prince Philip at a Nazi funeral and his own family were closely connected to Nazis never mind the Windsors into which he was married. The House of Windsor were officially the German House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) until they changed their name to Windsor during the First World War as an exercise purely in public relations with Britain at war with Kaiser Wilhelm and their other relatives in Germany.

Wilhelm was the cousin of King George V, whom Blunt apparently said was his father, and George was also a cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, but don’t worry an elite doesn’t run the world. The British wing of the Battenberg family anglicised their name to Mountbatten at the same time and later it was Lord Louis Mountbatten who maintained communications between the Windsors and their relatives in Nazi Germany even though he was Britain’s Chief of Combined Operations and later Supreme Allied Commander in South-East Asia. ‘Sides’ don’t matter to these people – the outcome is what counts. It was the paedophile Lord Mountbatten, the mentor to both Prince Philip and Prince Charles, who introduced his friend Jimmy Savile to the royal family in the 1960s. Charles, Mountbatten and Philip. Anthony Blunt’s reward for services rendered in hiding the Nazi truth about the Windsor-Mountbattens was to be appointed Surveyor of the King’s Pictures when he retired from MI5 after the war – even though he was still a member of the Rothschild spy ring and was seen with Burgess and Maclean just before they defected in 1951.

Blunt continued in his royal role when George VI died in 1953 and his daughter Elizabeth became Queen although her mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon – Blunt’s cousin – and her arranged-marriage husband Philip were the real power behind the throne. The Royals well knew about Blunt’s treasonous background. Army officer Philip Hay went for an interview at Buckingham Palace in 1948 for the post of Private Secretary to the Dowager Duchess of Kent and he said that after they passed Blunt in a corridor, Sir Alan Lascelles, King George VI’s private secretary, said: ‘That’s our Russian spy’. The Queen had been briefed about Blunt’s secret confession (not that she needed to be) but he continued to work in all the royal palaces as the official advisor on her art collection and Victor Rothschild turned up to at least one dinner party with his friend Blunt years after his admission of spying. Meanwhile, other British spies such as John Vassall, a clerk at the British embassy in Moscow whose homosexuality was used to blackmail him, was jailed for 18 years when he was not in the same league of treachery as Blunt. What a joke it all it.

The Windsors would have also known that Blunt was a paedophile and it is no surprise to me whatsoever after hearing him named many times that he has turned up on the alleged lists of visitors to the Elm Guest House. The stories have long circulated about his procurement of young boys, mostly from ‘care’ homes, and his paedophile parties. These include how Blunt would murder children through asphyxiation while they were being raped because of the apparent sexual ‘high’ these sickest of people get from this. One rapist would be a masked man said to be a royal or a Rothschild (same thing) who always wore socks even when otherwise naked. He became known as the ‘Soxon Rothschild’. Blunt also ran a paedophile ring and was a friend of Stephen Ward who was at the centre of the Profumo Affair in early 1960s when the British Secretary of State for War John Profumo was exposed for having an affair with the model and dancer Christine Keeler , who was also having a relationship with Eugene Ivanov, a Russian military attaché.

Key events in the story happened at Cliveden, the Buckinghamshire mansion owned by the Astor family, and the usual suspects were involved, although of course not named, including Lord Mountbatten and Prince Philip. Stephen Ward was the fall-guy in the story and he ‘committed suicide’ to keep himself quiet. You know how it goes. Blunt and his boyfriend, the former Irish Guards bandsman John Gaskin, lived in a flat at the Courtauld Institute of Art off London’s Oxford Street where Blunt was director, and Gaskin would go out trawling public toilets for young men drunk or drugged enough to bring back for Blunt’s pleasure. When Gaskin began to blab about Blunt’s activities, he ‘fell’ out of a window and landed on railings some distance below. Miraculously he survived, but later he is said to have thrown himself in front of a train five years after Blunt had died in 1983. The royal family of course knew all about his paedophilia and child murder just as they knew about their close friend for decades, Jimmy Savile.

Blunt once went for tea with his cousin the Queen Mother and took with him a 12 year old boy, according to a footman who said that he overheard her tell Blunt: ‘You will keep my secrets and I will keep yours.’ And my god, they both had some. The Queen Mother, a high Satanist, got away with it all her life thanks to a simple technique: smile when they’re watching. Her daughter has yet to grasp that one. I understand why so many people find it impossible to comprehend that members of the royal family, political leaders and feted academics, entertainers and big banking and corporate names would be involved in paedophilia, murder and human sacrifice, but they are. I have been exposing the paedophile and child killing British Prime Minister Ted Heath since my book The Biggest Secret was first published in 1998 and this was backed up this week by barrister Michael Shrimpton, a former immigration judge and now an Intelligence and national security consultant. Shrimpton has an extensive intelligence background both sides of the Atlantic and he has written a book called Spyhunter which he hopes to publish this year.

Shrimpton said in an interview on community radio that Heath was a paedophile who murdered his young boy victims, or had others do it, often by throwing them into the sea after he had abused them on his series of yachts called Morning Cloud – one in particular that won the Sydney to Hobart race and then sank off Jersey in 1974 after Heath had sold it to a Jersey resident. Shrimpton said, as I have, that the record-breaking paedophile and BBC ‘star’ Jimmy Savile supplied boys for Heath – many of them from the Jersey children’s home, Haut de la Garenne, with the support of those who ran the home. Savile and Heath. Shrimpton goes on: There are people who are still alive who are involved in the paedophile scandal and obviously I am not going to name them on a radio programme but the most prominent paedophile associated with the Savile ring was a man called Edward Heath who you may recall was Prime Minister. Heath was recruited by the Germans in 1937, I have said this in Spyhunter. Heath was into little boys and Savile was supplying them.

A number of these boys were taken out the Haut de la Garenne in Jersey. Savile was taking children from a children’s home with support of German assets in Jersey. My own view is that the ‘German’ networks that Shrimpton talks about were controlled in the background, just like Britain, Russia, and the United States etc., by the Rothschilds and their lackeys. The same is true of the Nazi scientists, engineers, geneticists and mind controllers sent to the United States after the war under the code-named Operation Paperclip to set up NASA, the mind-control programme MKUltra, and much else. Germany has been a Rothschild fiefdom since the infamous occult family called Bauer changed their name to Rothschild in the 18th century and it is also used as a conduit for their activities by the Vatican wing of the conspiracy, the Jesuits, Knights of Malta, Knights Templar and Opus Dei. The Vatican was heavily involved in the ‘rat runs’ that transported those Nazis to the United States under Operation Paperclip. Lenny Harper was the deputy head of Jersey police who had his career destroyed for the crime of genuinely investigating what happened to children at Haut de la Garenne.

He searched for graves, but none were found because Michael Shrimpton said there weren’t any: The boys were in fact being taken to a boat, it happened to be Edward Heath’s boat or yacht and they were murdered and thrown overboard so there is no point sadly in looking for their grave … they don’t have any grave except the sea. That’s why the BBC and the Cabinet Office have been so keen to protect Savile; that is why the cabinet office in the 1980s were willing to back Savile to the point of giving him a position of authority at Broadmoor [a high-security psychiatric hospital] … you don’t put a paedophile in charge of Broadmoor.

It’s like putting a lunatic in charge of the asylum or a drunk in charge of a brewery or David Cameron in charge of a government … Shrimpton rightly said that Lenny Harper was a very competent and very courageous police officer who ‘was up against a Cabinet Office-backed paedophile ring and the investigation that he was conducting was at some professional risk … … Indeed I suspect his life was also at risk at one point because he was getting close to some very uncomfortable truths about people in the Cabinet Office, GO2 [British Intelligence] in London and certain people in Jersey in the German network. Shrimpton says that Heath’s paedophilia and murder of children was covered up by his Cabinet Secretary John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth, who Shrimpton says was also a paedophile. There are interesting parallels between Hunt and Savile. Hunt was appointed by the Queen to be a Companion, Knight Commander and Knight Grand Cross of the British Order of chivalry known as The Most Honourable Order of the Bath of which the Queen is the head and Prince Charles the Grand Master. Hunt was also given a Papal Knighthood by Pope John Paul II – so was Jimmy Savile who was also knighted by the Queen.

Savile and Hunt were both given a Papal knighthood by the biggest child-abuse network on Planet Earth – the Roman Catholic Church (Church of Babylon relocated). Michael Shrimpton highlights a fact that I have come across constantly over the years – that children abused by famous people, especially in the worlds of politics and royalty, are then killed to protect the identity of their abuser. He said: If the children are and I am afraid with paedophilia we sometimes have babies being abused but if you are not talking babies, you are talking toddlers who are able to recognise the people that are abusing them … since you are talking about people who are on television, people who are high profile, you have to murder the children in order to protect your asset. So for the Germans [I would say Rothschilds] it was essential that the boys … were being taken onto the yacht [for] a death ride.

When Jimmy Savile was taking let’s say a fourteen year old boy down to Morning Cloud, handing him over to Edward Heath or a member of the crew on the yacht, it was a death ride, that was that boy’s last journey on earth because there was no way in the world with him recognising Edward Heath that he could be allowed back on shore and Savile must have known this … I named Edward Heath as a serial paedophile and child killer in my book, The Biggest Secret, first published in 1998 – seven years before he died. I also named him and his Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber as practicing Satanists, as I did the leading members of the royal family. Anthony Barber. Heath was read what I said by an excuse for a ‘journalist’ days after publication and he did nothing because to do so would have had the truth exposed in court – as it would be now if anyone from the Thatcher cesspit wants a go. Michael Shrimpton mentions Barber in his interview as being in league with Heath and Cabinet Secretary Hunt.

You can hear the whole interview with Michael Shrimpton at the end of this article and he also talks about what he says happened to the abducted little girl Madeleine McCann, the assassination of Princess Diana, the murder of weapons expert David Kelly who could have trashed the lies used to justify the Blair invasion of Iraq, and what Shrimpton says was the murder of former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook. Now let us assess what this tells us about the royal family and the Conservative Party administrations of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher between 1979 and 1990. Thatcher replaced Heath as party leader in 1975 and went on to be the next Conservative Prime Minister. The implications for both the royal family and Thatcher are as follows: Jimmy Savile was a close friend of Lord Mountbatten, Prince Philip and Prince Charles from the 1960s and this continued for decades AFTER the cover up of Heath’s paedophilia and child murder in association with Savile. You mean they didn’t KNOW? Is someone having a laugh? British Intelligence didn’t know? Ditto.

British Intelligence didn’t know that a record-breaking paedophile had been interviewed by police but not charged on a number of occasions for sexual abuse against minors and didn’t know about his legendary sexual abuses over 54 years? Of course they knew, but some at MI5 and MI6 would have been among his clients. A British newspaper quoted a ‘Buckingham Palace insider’ as saying that Prince Charles ‘was furious that he was never informed about suspicions that Savile was a pervert who preyed on children.’ The ‘insider’ said ‘the Palace have been on to the security services to see why they were not informed’ and the source continued: The Queen, Philip, Charles and others want to know why no-one picked up a phone to tell them a child abuser was being allowed in royal homes and meeting with senior royals and their families … What a load of baloney. I’ll tell you why they didn’t pick up the phone -they were already well aware that the royals knew and had done so since paedophile Mountbatten brought Savile into the fold as a child procurer in the 1960s.

This is the same royal family that employed at close range another infamous paedophile and child murderer, Anthony Blunt, and like so many paedophiles and killers they gave him a knighthood – as they did Savile. British Intelligence didn’t know what Blunt was doing? He worked for them as well as moonlighting for the Rothschilds and the KGB. Sir Maurice Oldfield British Intelligence, while employing I am sure many genuine people, has been infested by Satanists and paedophiles including the former head of the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield. He was a friend and associate of Victor Rothschild and one of his haunts was the Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast, Northern Ireland, along with Establishment paedophiles like Mountbatten and Heath. The Kincora abuse scandal broke in the 1980s but naturally the small fry were netted while the big fish swam away in the cesspool they inhabit. Oldfield was another paedophile given a knighthood by the royals and he was also made a member of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, another royal ‘chivalry’ order in their web of elite groupings and secret societies.

So now to Margaret Thatcher: She and her husband Denis became such close friends with Jimmy Savile that he was invited to join them for New Year’s Eve every year for more than a decade – and this was AFTER the Conservative Party cover up of Edward Heath’s paedophile and child murders committed in concert with Savile. Thatcher’s government and circle of associates and aides was alive with paedophiles including Chester MP Peter Morrison, a close aide to Thatcher from 1975 to 1990. He was an open-secret paedophile, well known to colleagues, the media and the Chester police, and yet Thatcher and her Cabinet and inner circle did NOTHING while he was abusing boys in North Wales children’s homes and elsewhere. Anyone in that Thatcher circle MUST have known. Thatcher minister Edwina Currie wrote in her published diaries: One appointment in the recent reshuffle has attracted a lot of gossip and could be very dangerous: Peter Morrison has become the PM’s PPS [Parliamentary Private Secretary].

Now he’s what they call a ‘noted pederast’, with a liking for young boys; he admitted as much to [Conservative Party chairman] Norman Tebbit when he became deputy chairman of the party but added’ ‘However, I’m very discreet’ – and he must be! She [Thatcher] either knows and is taking a chance, or doesn’t; either way, it’s a really dumb move [by then Morrison had been a close aide for 15 years – what does Currie mean Thatcher may not know?]. [Conservative MP] Teresa Gorman told me this evening (in a taxi coming back from a drinks party at the BBC) that she inherited Morrison’s (woman) agent, who claimed to have been offered money to keep quiet about his activities. It scares me as all the press know, and as we get closer to the election someone is going to make trouble, very close to her indeed. Note that Currie doesn’t explain why she didn’t go to the police or the media to demand that something be done about Morrison – it is only a case of how his activities could affect her party and the demand therefore that he better be discreet.

It was Currie, as a health minister with responsibility for high security hospitals under Health Secretary Kenneth Clarke, who appointed Savile to run a taskforce at Broadmoor in the 1980s which he exploited to abuse patients. Morrison and Thatcher. ‘Hague’ is William Hague, the current Foreign Secretary who was Welsh Secretary when the North Wales ‘care’ home scandal broke in which Morrison was involved. The wider implications of paedophile politicians and royalty are far greater than even the sickening abuse of children. It means that paedophiles in power can be blackmailed to change society through legislation in ways that the blackmailers demand or else. The Rothschilds operating out of Britain, Germany, France and Rome have been the force behind the creation of what is now the European Union on their way to a global fascist dictatorship based on a world government, army, bank and currency, Edward Heath was completely controlled by the Rothschilds (in my view, what Michael Shrimpton calls the Germans) because of his paedophilia and child murder.

Rothschild asset Heath was the most constant and vocal advocate over decades of Britain’s entry into the then European Economic Community (EEC) and it was Heath as prime minister who signed Britain’s entry on January 1st 1973. Heath’s policies during his premiership between 1970 and 74 were largely dictated by a Think Tank called the Central Policy Review Staff which was headed by … Lord Victor Rothschild. One of the policies was the industrialisation and chemicalisation of farming methods which Rothschild had championed as chairman of the Agricultural Research Council from 1948 to 1958. Rothschild was a frequent guest of Heath at the prime minister’s country residence at Chequers, west of London, from where Heath and his Chancellor Anthony Barber would attend satanic rituals at Burnham Beeches, an area of woodland owned by ‘The City’ (London’s financial centre) and so in truth owned by the secret societies that control The City (see The Biggest Secret ). Harold Wilson. Victor Rothschild was also close to Heath’s political opponent, the Labour Party Prime Minister and another paedophile, Harold Wilson.

Either Wilson or Heath was in Downing Street from 1964 to 1975 and both were attached to strings held by Rothschild. It was during a Wilson premiership that Rothschild arranged for the covert export of plutonium to Israel to establish their now massive nuclear weapons programme (see … And The Truth Shall Set You Free ). Victor Rothschild was the force behind the expansion of nuclear power and worked in support of this by manipulating the miners’ strikes of the Heath years which at one time led to Britain moving to a three-day working week to conserve energy. Several anti-nuclear protestors met unexplained or suspicious deaths. Rothschild became senior security advisor to Margaret Thatcher at the same time that his Rothschild Zionist associate and royal knight Sir Colin Figures was head of MI6. Rothschild was also the instigator behind the sacking of BBC Director General Alasdair Milne in 1987 after Thatcher had appointed his friend Marmaduke Hussey as head of the BBC governors. I was at the BBC at the time and met Milne. He was the last genuine defender of the BBC’s independence and it’s all been downhill ever since – exactly as planned.

These are the wheels within wheels turning all the time under the cover of official versions of events which are repeated without question by the mainstream media. The cement that holds it all together is Satanism, paedophilia and secret societies. Police chiefs have announced this week that their initial inquiry into political paedophilia in Britain, known as Operation Fairbank, is going to be joined by a full-blown investigation into the historical abuse at the Elm Guest House called Operation Fernbridge while Fairbank will continue to follow up other leads. Fairbank was established after Labour MP Tom Watson asked Prime Minister David Cameron in a parliamentary question about evidence he had of a widespread paedophile ring operating out of 10 Downing Street under a previous prime minister. Several politicians, including an ever-recurring Thatcher cabinet minister, a Thatcher promoter and a very famous singer are on a list of people said to have visited the Elm Guest House along with Anthony Blunt in the 1980s – the Thatcher years. Also on the list are a number of members of the Monday Club, a far-right faction within the Conservative Party which supported the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Thatcher aide Derek Laud was the first black member of the Monday Club as he was the first black master of foxhounds in the country – both environments normally far from welcoming and conducive to black people. He was given the nickname ‘Golly’. This is the same Derek Laud, a long-time friend of Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, and a guest at their wedding, who was accused of paedophile activity by the now defunct Scallywag magazine in the 1990s along with Thatcher Treasurer Lord McAlpine who was in the news recently protesting his innocent after similar allegations surfaced. Neither chose to sue Scallywag all those years ago. The evidence for an enormous paedophile ring operating within the royal palaces, Downing Street and the Westminster Parliament is overwhelming and if the police do not make arrests of big political and royal names so they can be questioned under caution then police investigations will be shown to be a cover up given the evidence that is mounting all the time. The British Establishment with its worldwide reach and influence is indeed looking over the abyss.

Barrister and Intelligence Insider Michael Shrimpton talking about Jimmy Savile and Ted Heath Michael Shrimpton also describes what he says happened to the abducted little girl Madeleine McCann, the assassination of Princess Diana, the murder of weapons expert Dr David Kelly who could have trashed the lies used to justify the Blair invasion of Iraq, and what he says was the murder of former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook. I can’t confirm what he says about Madeleine or Cook but for sure I can with everything else with regard to Heath, Savile and the Conservative Party and government. Nor do I agree with all of his assumptions about who was behind it all, and certainly not that British Intelligence are the ‘good guys’. But it is very interesting information very much worth hearing. " title="">Click here to listen … David Icke – Why Some People Don’t Like Hearing the Truth BYM Sailing & Sports News BYM Sailing & Sports News UK.

Shifty winds and close racing for Charles Stanley Cowes Classics Week Friday, 22 July 2016 The biggest ever Charles Stanley Cowes Classics Week, which took place from 11-15 July, welcomed a host classic yachts, ranging from the oldest, 122 year old Gaffer Spinaway X and, just five years younger, built in 1894, Peggy Baun, to a pair of modern but classically designed Tofonus, just couple of years old. The majority, however were designed, and mostly built, more than 40 years ago, the criteria for entry being that the yachts must have been designed before 1975. The 188-strong fleet was the largest ever for the event which, in its ninth year is now fully established as one of Europe’s most important classic yacht regattas.

This year some notable newcomers, including a class of S&S Swans, and four vintage Dragons, joined the now well established one design classes, the XODs, Bembridge One Designs, Darings, Solent Sunbeams, National Swallows, Flying Fifteens, Loch Longs and the metre yachts including a number of Six Metres and Eight Metres. Other regulars including Twisters, Gaffers and South Coast One Designs joined in the handicap cruiser racing from a shoreline start. The one designs sailed tightly around the mainly windward-leeward courses experiencing some high octane competition on four committee boat courses, spread across the mid-Solent and mainland shore. A fleet of Squibs also came from the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, further east on the Island, to have a one-day only race on the Tuesday of the event. Easily spotted by their brown sails and small spinnakers, the Squib day belonged to Andrew Porteous and his Firecracker Too with two firsts. A special invitational event within the regatta, added to the excitement when 24 International Tempests, two-man trapeze keelboats, used Cowes Classics Week as their World Championship.

The Tempests fitted in seamlessly to the theme of the regatta, having been designed by Ian Proctor in 1965 as an Olympic class. Crews came from France, Austria, Switzerland and Germany as well as from Ullswater in the Lake District of the UK to take part. During the week every type of weather presented itself, from excessive winds which forced the cancellation of the first day, to light and patchy breezes which made racing very tactical, especially in the strong Solent tides – something many of the visiting crews, especially in the Tempests, who are lake sailors, had to quickly get the hang of. Races were won and lost on 30 degree wind shifts and lucky choices as well as cunning and skill. The fleet is very competitive,” reported Klaus Wende, who was racing his Tempest at Cowes for the first time.

The one-time Flying Dutchman world champion from Bavaria, who returned to the race course on the second day after being holed in a port-starboard incident, said “It has been a great challenge to learn the tides here – where we sail there are no currents!” Cowes Classics Week first took place in 2008 as a modest event for metre and classic dayboats, and continues to welcome more classic yacht classes and beautiful one offs. The yachts, representing 30 yacht clubs both in the UK and overseas, competed in 18 different classes over a number of race courses. Even the antique Peggy Bawn sailed down from Dublin to take part. Interest from newcomers continues to grow – at least 35 entrants did not compete last year. A world champion was crowned at the event’s conclusion as the lively breezes of the fourth and final day provided perfect action conditions. Frank Weigelt, sailing Holzwurm claimed the title in the International Tempest World Championship. This is the fifth time that Frank and his long-standing crew Christian Rusitschka have won the Tempest Worlds. “We prepared in a theoretical sense very much before we came to Cowes,” said Frank who normally sails on tide-free lakes in Bavaria.

“We had a lot to think about with the shifting winds and the Solent tides.” He adds, “It has been a great challenge - we would definitely come here again.” Another outstanding champion of the week undoubtedly had to be James Meaning and his crew Bob Brinsdon and Sean Curran on Gleam, who triumphed in the 50 strong XOD class, the largest class at the event. He had a lot of boats to beat and achieved it through consistent performance. He modestly said “We’ve never won a big event in 27 years but we thought if we kept trying for long enough the law of averages would win through.” James completely rebuilt his 1967-built XOD (although the XOD was designed in 1911). James and his team beat Kim Slater’s Madeleine into second place and a very worthy third was young Ben Childerley crewed by his father and two times Olympic Finn contender Stuart, and his sister Abby. Stuart described it as “a week of ups and downs!” The XOD class was fiercely competitive right to the last race, where the antics of the fleet summed up a week of action and excitement.

The dreaded black flag, threatening disqualification to any yacht over the line, was flying at the third attempt at a start for the over-eager one-designs. The overall Charles Stanley Cowes Classics Trophy itself was won in the Solent Sunbeam class. Roger Wickens improved on his second place of last year by gaining an overall win in the closely fought series and his performance also give him the regatta win calculated using the weighted formula based on the number of boats in the class. The Solent Sunbeams, as a fleet, come across from Itchenor Sailing Club each year to compete in the Charles Stanley Cowes Classics, and the class which started in 1922 continues to grow with nine new boats in the water in the past couple of years. Consistency was also the name of the game for BOD 8, sailed by James Row, who secured the top Bembridge One Design slot, including two firsts. The BOD, introduced in 1936, is based on the XOD, but with three inches less draught to cater for the shallow approaches of Bembridge Harbour.

Despite the yacht not having a spinnaker racing was very tight in the class which shared a race course and start with the similarly paced Loch Longs. The Flying Fifteen and National Swallow classes raced the same course on a KLR handicap system, and it was Mike Wigmore who won the series on National Swallow, Gwaihir, while the victory in the Flying Fifteen class belonged to Bobby Salmond’s Vacquero. The two classes, combining to form the ‘Day Boats Yellow’ class were joined by some distinguished newcomers this year, four vintage Dragons. Amongst them was Rupert Street’s Tschuss, recovered from a farmyard where she had languished for more than 20 years, and was completely restored by the Elephant Boatyard. Charles Stanley Cowes Classics Week was her debut event of a new life. The story of Tschuss was one of several that event Chairman Peter Taylor referred to when he gave an overview of the fleet, saying “Some of these yachts are over 100 years old but all are at the top of their game, and most are lovingly restored to immaculate condition by their owners”.

As well as the vintage Dragons, there were plenty of examples of restorations included John Corby’s Doublet, the immaculate Daring which he relaunched last year, originally built in 1971. She is one of several that he has restored. John celebrated a win in the Daring Class, a development of the 5.5 metre which was a former Olympic Class. “This is the biggest Daring win for me to date,” said John. “We made some good decisions and I had a very good crew in Ian Holtedahl-Finlay and Paul Miller and also my brother Mark.” Nine Loch Longs, which have all travelled from Aldeburgh, Suffolk were amongst the 13 classes in total which took part in the event, with James Mehew in Whisper taking the series. All the one design classes, Six Metres and Eight Metres were shared between four committee boat courses spread across the Solent to the east of Southampton Water. Whilst the first day of racing was lost to excessive wind conditions, each of the race officers and their teams went on to get all races completed on the largely windward leeward courses.

Six and Eight Metres shared a start for their two windward leeward courses, and the smaller Six, Sioma held onto a lead throughout then event with five first places, seeing off Tom Richardson’s Thistle, in conditions well suited to Metre yachts. Sparring between three majestic Eight Metres saw a win go to Christopher Courage’s K33 Helen closely contested by K36 Athena owned by David Parson and The Earl of Cork and Orrery with Richard Bendy’s Osborne of Wight coming in third. Five handicap classes, however, were racing from the fixed line of the organising club, the Royal London Yacht Club. Classic Cruising yachts, gaffers - several more than a century old and ‘Spirit of Tradition’ modern classic yachts raced over Solent courses. Six Twisters, a class of cruiser racers largely built in the 60s raced closely. Allan Beswick and his wife Gillian came to Cowes with the original Twister Twister of Mersea.

“The wind and the courses have been right for us this week,” said Allan, “We’ve enjoyed the shoreside programme of the event as well.” Charm of Rhu, a converted Eight Metre, built in 1963, competed in the Classic Cruiser handicap class. Owner Martin Thomas had a very special crew on board. “We decided to use the event as a reunion for my university friends of 40 years ago,” he said, “so we had a fun crew!” A host of historic gaffers and wooden cruisers including Contessa 26s, South Coast One Designs, two sleek modern classic Tofinous and other vintage yachts were joined for the first time by seven S&S Swans. Richard Loftus’ Swan 65 Desperado won Classic Yachts Red 1 and the Swan trophy and Jonathan Wallis’s Swan 36 Sheevra won Classic Yachts Red 2 and also the Swan trophy for that class.

Jonathan said of his 1969 built Swan “This is the first year we were eligible to enter and we’ve had some very good racing.” He added “We’ve had some good battles with Sunmaid V (built 1967).” Adding a backdrop to the traditional sailing scene was the presence of two iconic yachts, Mariquita, the beautiful 38m (125ft) Fife design built in 1911, and Opposition, built in 1971 for the then British Prime Minister Edward Heath as his second Morning Cloud and which went on to win the Admiral’s Cup. Neither yacht raced but Mariquita was on the water each day with a full crew to show their support to the fleet, and competitors at Cowes Classics Week enjoyed the chance of getting on board both boats to have a look around after racing. Winners collected trophies from the magnificent Royal London collection, some dating back to the 19th century. Even older is the Charles Stanley 1792 Cup which was won by the Roger Wickens, and named after the year the title sponsors’ company was formed.

In addition to the class prizes the Solent Grounding Trophy was won by Hal Sisk in Peggy Bawn who went aground on the Shrape trying to cheat the flood tide, but soon got off to win his race, the Classic Boat Concours D’Elegance Trophy was won by Roy Hart who had brought his beautiful gaffer Greensleeves II down from the East Coast, the Ratsey and Lapthorne Travellers Trophy went to Ted Fort who had his Tofinou Pippa trailed up from the Mediterranean and the Classic Boat Seamanship Trophy went to Chris Moore and Julian Money whose Solent Sunbeam Penny had a rigging failure on the Tuesday but with a lot of effort she was racing for the remainder of the week with some good results. The Charles Stanley Cowes Classics Week New Helm Trophy went to Jamie Hoare in his Folkboat Samphire which also won Classic Yachts Blue. The Tempests also have 18 of their own historic trophies and new 2016 World Champion Frank Weigelt was awarded the Queen Victoria Jubilee Cup which was given to the club by the then Queen in 1886.

The Royal London Yacht Club was supported by the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, Royal Ocean Racing Club, Cowes, Island Sailing Club and Cowes Corinthian Yacht Club. This year’s event charity, the Miss Isle School of Sip & Puff Sailing, raised over £750. The unique sailing and training experience for physically disabled individuals who want to go sailing but aren’t able to sail a conventional boat. The charity is the brainchild of teenager Natasha Lambert, who has cerebral palsy herself, yet has already sailed around the Isle of Wight, up to the Thames, crossed the Channel, sailed over five hundred miles to Wales, and many other adventures. Natasha was at the prize giving to accept the cheque. Visit . The Organisers are grateful to all the sponsors. Cowes Classics Week 2017 dates: 17 to 21 July 2017. For the full results go to Author: Marina Johnson

Question: What was the name given to a series of five yachts owned by former British Prime Minister Edward Heath?
Answer: Morning Cloud